Best jobs in Slidell, LA
The best-scoring occupations in the Slidell-Mandeville-Covington, LA metro area, ranked on local pay plus national growth and opportunity.
Wages here are local to Slidell, LA (OEWS May 2025). Projected growth and openings are national BLS projections — not a local forecast.
How this ranking is scored
score = .40·pay + .30·growth + .20·employment + .10·openings
Each factor is scaled to the strongest occupation on this list, then weighted and summed. Weights differ by list type. Full methodology.
Wages — OEWS May 2025 (metro)
Growth & openings — EP 2024–34 (national)
How Slidell, LA pay compares to the nation
Median vs U.S. median · scale ±10%
$127,840 vs $132,300 · -3.4%
$394,170 vs $265,930 · +48.2%
−10%U.S. MEDIAN+10%
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Occupation
MEDIAN, LOCAL
P25–P75
Growth
Employed
Open/yr
Score
Showing top 25 of 681 scored occupations — show all 681show top 25
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Occupation
MEDIAN, LOCAL
Growth
Score
147
$121,880
+1.9%
26
149
$66,970
+0.3%
25
150
$37,660
-1.6%
25
235
$59,110
+3.7%
20
240
$47,700
+3.1%
20
333
Electrical, Electronic, and Electromechanical Assemblers, Except Coil Winders, Tapers, and Finishers
—†
+4.6%
17†
348
$37,700
+6.3%
16
413
$49,120
+2.3%
14†
452
—†
-13.7%
13†
473
—†
+2.0%
12†
516
—†
-4.3%
12†
611
—†
-12.1%
8†
618
—†
-3.8%
8†
627
—†
-12.0%
8†
Live jobs in Slidell, LA
Growth and openings are national (BLS EP 2024–34) — state-level projections are not in this data pull, so the same national figure is used for every place and we say so rather than guess. † local wage not published for this cell — the score uses the state value and the pay column shows a dash.